Example sentences of "brother 's [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 As we walked she told me how she had always resisted her brother 's attempts to persuade her to emigrate to Pakistan .
2 Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’
3 The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville .
4 The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville .
5 Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ?
  Next page